Friday, April 30, 2021

April away again...

Playlist
Capital Models - December 2013
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversongs 1996-2021 (Remakes)
Nordic Affect - Clockworking
Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson - Moonbow
Capital Models - 2021-04-25
u-Ziq - Lunatic Harness
Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson - Caeli
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik (12 CD Box Set)
Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Eight Fragments of an Illusion
Loma - Don't Shy Away
Jaki Byard - The Jaki Byard Experence
Porter Robinson - Nurture
Beethoven - Beethoven: Symphonies (Karajan)

The end of April, most of which appears to have been updated in May...

So far behind but trying my best...

Here, the days of April...


Up early this morning - when am I not?


Views from the back room...





Listening today included the new mixes of the song retrospective being planned...

Re 1997, my initial 100, previously whittled to 75, 50, 30 and 20 received its penultimate whittle and, this morning, stood at the (or, rather, my - you all have your own, of course) Top Ten. Who was still with me, as we headed to tomorrow's final 5?  Not many...


Lunch...


Squirrel...


So cute - I wish the squirrels would come into the house and allow us to pet them...


...but they would, of course, destroy everything...


Tea...


This evening, to podcasting...


Saved myself 30 minutes work by using 4 turntables instead of two - but I needed to up the concentration levels to avoid the (almost inevitable) botch ups...

I didn't...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Playing the white...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik (12 CD Box Set)
Gerhard - Electronic Explorations from his Studio + BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1958-1967
Gerhard - Symphony 3 Collages; Piano Concerto; Epithalamion
John Foxx - Glimmer
Brain Eno - Rams
Aldous Harding - Designer
Porter Robinson - Nurture
Dar Williams - The Music Hall Session [EP]
David Bowie - Heroes

Up and "Sparklemusik" has stretched now to the equivalent of 12 CDs...


The sky...



The work...


The breakfast...


Once again, whittled my 1997 LPs - now down to just 20...

This afternoon, decided to give my latest LP acquisition a spin...



Enjoyable...

As was Anne's Kerala curry...



Much of the evening spent working out arrnagemnts for "Heroes" and "The Number One Song in Heaven" for the band, editing togetehr the correct versions using Sunday's recordings...

Followed by a quiet close to the day...





Til tomorrow...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's curry...

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Return of the clever crow...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversounds 1996-2021 (Remixes)
Klaus Schulze - Ballett 1 & 2
Klaus Schulze - Ballett 3 & 4
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversongs 1996-2021 (Remakes)
801 - Live @ Hull
Galaxy - Nature's Clear Well
Malaria! - Emotion
Brian Eno - Film Music 1976 - 2020
Hellawell - Inside Story, The Still Dancers, Quadruple Elegy
Keller - Kammermusik
Various Composers - 20th Century Italian Piano Music
Tirzah - Devotion
Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Jiri Malat - Mannheimer Schule, Vol. 1-5
Shuggie Otis - The Best Of Shuggie Otis
Various Composers - Bach Sons
Various Artists - Funk Soul Brothers & Sisters
Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound Of Music OST: 50th Anniversary
Kertsman - 3 Concertos & Chamber Symphony No. 2 "New York Of 50 Doors"
Christoph Prégardien, Andreas Staier - Schubert Schumann Mendelssohn
Zender - Schubert's "Winterreise"
Bach, J S - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Vladimir Feltsman)
Ji Liu - Fire & Water
Various Artists - Godspunk Volume Twenty
Matthias Arter - Oboe Plus
Marsh - 5 Symphonies
Cat Power - Wanderer
Volkmann - String Quartets Nos. 3 & 6
Amati Quartet - 200 Jahre Streichquartett
Various Artists - The Best Punk Album In The World...Ever
Various Artists - Glam Greats: 20 Seventies Stompers
Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 52
Joshua Trinidad - In November
Simaku - String Quartets #2 & 3, Soliloquy 1-3
ORA - Many Are The Wonders
Hindemith - Klarinettenquintett, Repertorium für Militärmusik "Minimax", Ouvertüre zum "Fliegenden Holländer"

Up in the middle of the week...


Views...



Coffee...


...and the return of the clever crow - this time captured in action...







Meanwhile, my 1997 LPs were cut down to the top 30...

...while much of my listening today were the first 100 LPs of the day of 2021...





Fish pie, with peas, of course, for tea - yum...


...followed by some remixing work on the recordings from 2017 and 2019 which will be on "Silversongs"...


...while Fang visited yet again...


A reasonable day...

Highlight of the Day : Capturing the intelligent work of the crow...

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Displaced by a slasher...

Playlist
Laura Pausini - Io Si (Seen) [EP]
Klaus Schulze - Ballett 1 & 2
Loma - Don't Shy Away
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik (11 CD Box Set)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversounds 1996-2021 (Remixes)
Clint Mansell - In the Earth OST
Baby Metal - 10 Baby Metal Years
Jaki Byard - The Jaki Byard Experience
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversongs 1996-2021 (Remakes)

Up late - Tuesday...


Pre breakfast skies...



...as I worked on the two 25 year retrospectives which may emerge in June...

"Silversounds" will be remixes of soundscape tracks released 1996-2021, while "Silversongs" will be remakes of songs released over the same first 25 years of Cloudland Blue Quartet...

This work was followed by toast and eggs...


...while lunch was salad...


...and tea was a lovely prawn stir fry...


..and Fang decided to like us once again...


...so much so, he stole the Exec Producer's seat...




...he is a good we thing by which to be displaced...


...although, of course, some slashing took place before his exit...

It is the way of the Fang...

Highlight of the Day : Fang visiting for a good long time...